

Because I assume you’re asking in food faith: Because animals suffer more - medication is not as available for humans. In nature they would starve or fall prey to hunters. As pets we rather give them something to die painlessly than to starve them.
To be clear: It’s literally “misery or death” - I hope you’ll never get into this situation but seeing a beloved animal suffer through something like this.








Feeling with you, stranger friend!
Serious tip: don’t traumatize your child by making it over the top traumatic and they’ll be fine!
Your instinct is correct, kids have an amazing grasp on life and death.
I had and have the same topic with my back then three year old. I won’t go into details but death is a topic for quite a while now.
Be open, be honest and don’t shy away from translating it to his level: If he had a favorite toy that got destroyed it’s an emotional connection he can make for example.
One important thing for me to point out though because it caught me as a shock: true empathy is impossible for a kid that age. Meaning: the chance is high that hell say something that will be completely out of the blue or shocking - expect it and don’t be too harsh please, even when he’ll manage to trigger something ❤️